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The Featured Projects section shows twenty projects on the front page, as the row is scrollable

The Featured Projects section on the Front Page is where projects featured by the Scratch Team are displayed. Featured Projects is the highest slot on the Front Page, and the projects that are featured usually reach great popularity.

Some users have suggested that there be a featured users section as well.[1]

Controversial featured projects

Interactive Katzenklavier — A music project which involves making cats meow at different pitches by pressing down keys. Shortly after it was featured, it raised tons of controversy about animal cruelty,[4] due to the real concept of the katzenklavier, but later settled down.

Animated pride flag — A project which involved a simple animation of a rainbow flag meant to promote LGBT rights. It became unsurprisingly controversial, resulting in many homophobic comments and remixes, which were later removed. It even lead to people questioning whether or not the Scratch Team was making political stances on subjects.[5] In response to the topic, the Scratch Team released a statement:

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We think it’s important to explain why we chose to feature a project supporting Pride Month, and why Scratch Team members sometimes share projects or icons related to LGBTQ+ issues. The Community Guidelines say, “Scratch welcomes people of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, and gender identities.” We believe Scratch should be a space for people to express themselves and share what is important to their lives such as race, gender, religion, etc. We feel respectful comments, projects, and studios about LGBTQ+ are appropriate for the Scratch website. When someone shares their identity, or celebrates their friend’s identity, we want to support that. When someone shares something that is against another person’s identity, we see that as unfriendly and unwelcoming. As members of the Scratch community, Scratch Team members create and share projects about topics important to us, and for some of us, that includes sharing LGBTQ-related projects. And we hope this will inspire other Scratchers to create content about topics that are important to their lives.

Snowflakes — This is a simple project where you click your mouse and it creates a snowflake. Scratchers have been arguing about whether or not the code was copied from a book on how to scratch. This also led to many people saying that their project was copied and they should get featured.[7]

Superhero Elle!! — Superhero Elle!! is a simple project as well where the main goal is to customize the skin color, lip color, and hairstyle of "Superhero Elle". After clicking done the text "Now Elle is ready to fight crime!!" is shown along with Elle sweeping across the screen. The simple and very short gameplay have lead to others calling it low-effort.[8]

無題 (Untitled) — This project functions as a Hex color code picker, using sliders to select a Hex color code. After it was featured, it was discovered to be extremely similar to COLORPICKER.[9] Many Scratchers called for the project to be unfeatured for being an alleged Project Copy and not crediting the original project.[10]

↑-BoyBust121-. (8/17/2017) ”Hey, I am sorry for thinking that you copied my project. If i get featured for a game that gets popular on the same day as this comment was posted, I will say I am really sorry for criticizing you Smartkmd. You did not deserve that criticism. You did say you used a coding book. I made a project and found out it was also in a book. I am very sorry." https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/168954677/#comments-80709597